1941-09-20 — Page 7

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

SUCCESSFUL Aircraft Protection Shows

GALA NIGHT

AT RITZ

Gala Night at the Ritz yester day, in ald of the SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILD

REN, attracted a large and enthu- slastle crowd. who entered with much vigour inta the spirit of the occasion. taking

the whole rangel of entertainment from dancing

"wee golf," barring only the swimming pool.

"Wee golf found more Suppor ters than the skating rink and the

Big Improvement: Many

New Devices In Use

"Aircraft protection shows a big improvement -its guns are better, armaments are better and special protective devices have come into use and have proved most valu- able," said MAJOR OLIVER STEWART, M.C., A.F.C., editor Aeronautics" and a well-known of the London magazine authority on aviation, which be broadcast from London yesterday.

Major Stewart, who had the previous week, discussed the development. of

guns

and

prevents low flying attacks against objectives in this country.

war,

GENERAL

VOLUNTEER TRAINING CAMPS

Training Camps of the Hong- kong Volunteer Defence Corps will be held in Ort. Nov and Dec. as follows

D.M

ist Canep Corps Artillery. 2nd Battery, 3rd Battery. No 6 Com- pany From p.m. Oct. 22 to p.m. | Oct. 29); 2nd Camp: Corps Art fery. 1st Battery, 4th Battery 5th A.A Battery (From p.m. Nov. 6 to "At the beginning of the

Nov. 12 3rd Camp: Field young in mb came with rueful bombs carried by aeroplanes, tacking plane would be able to cut No. 3 Company (Prom p.m. Nov, 20

Company Engineers, Corps Sigmals,. wane people imagined that an t-Mobile Column. No. 2 Company. through a balloon barrage There claim because the aim of the bar rage balloon is to force up aircraft mt regions where they could be deant with by fighters or anti-air Craft Runs Thus, these

balloon! barrages discourage low flying t tacks

faces and cards of 43. as opposed confined his talk yesterday to to the young in heart who were the developments that had ali there with cards of 30 and taken place recently to afford under

protection

aircraft and

Fred Carpio's Band provided tha dance music and most other pax Limes were abandoned early in the evening in favour of the ballroom floor

MERRY-MAKING

The Ritz with all its amenities. was kindly loaned for the occasion" by Mi Charles Gray and the en- tertainment committer. with Mra Violet Chan and Mrs Kwan direc

heir crews.

しい

"The scroplane."

A BIG TASK

he v tk suld ધ attacking Cargets. but when it tries Jend ground targets and defend Itself. It becomes task."

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Major Stewart went on to trace The history

protection fur planes He said that just us the Lo bulid Germans were the first

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cable excuse for this

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to p.m. Nov 271: 4th Camp: No. 1 Company. No Company. No 4 Company. No 5 7 Company, Pleid Ambulance (From pm Des 5 Dec 81

Miscellaneous. Army

Service Corps Company Transport and Supply Sections) and certain Duty Personnel Field Anbulance-- one week as detalles over the whole! parloud

Pay Section as detalled by OC ¡Pay Section.

Offers and

Volunteers are re-

"One of the rrasols

ቴዲ ╔ Why have got experienced low-flying attacks in this country is because our balloon bartage bas proved effective

And is effective bé. cause it dues not work very high. Each camp Jasts seven days and

SUCCESSFUL MEASURE Ing affaire had the whole place:

"These balloons can be sent up quired to attend for the full period ready for gay merry making at the first satistartory swift moving

Lank, the British were the first to very ligh, but if they are tendance.

they during which their units are un build up armour for the plane

will not be able to stop n

modern der training unless special exemp- tion has been obtained by them?- The engine Itsell

boraber which has a wing like provided certain amcant of

selves or their employers. protection fur steel knife and which car cut the singie-seater fighter, where their cables. It is no use

sending In special cases where exemption OF so from a portion of the fall period The pilot required this protection balloons up to 15,000 feet The modern bombers now had a sircraft"

It their cables can be cut by enemy is sought employers should always when he dived down an attack

request lave for their employees thick plate protectim directly be¦

Major Stewart said that balloon in writing, AS EARLY AS POSSI

from to BLE. hind the pliot's

Technical bartages were also being used scul

Commandant. Volunteer the protect convoys and had proved H.K.

Defence Corps. P. Franklin. Captain McCracken, experts were thinking along

Headquarters. and a successful defensive measure.

Garden U.S.N.. Dr. and Mrs. La Shu-fan, same lines as the last

Such applications should Mr and Mrs Wong

"So, laken altogether. the prin- Road had discovered devices that hadi Sik-chuen.

ciple of aircraft protection shows give tull particulars as to the General and Mrs Wong Keung. Pot been thought n before

said asons for leave and the exact

times during which it is required

Among those present were bei Hon. Sir Shouson Chow and party the Hon. Mr W N Thomas Tam and party the Hob Mr. Tsu- fong and party Mr C ✡ Bolla, the Misses Doris and Helen Kote- wall Mi Kwok Chan and party. Mr and Mrs. Y K Chao, Mr. N V A. Croucher, Mr B. Wylie Mr F.

Mr.

and Mrs. M W. Kwan. Mr

and Mrs. H M. Sul, Mr C. E Terry. M Louis Roth, Mr and Mrs.

war

THE BALLOON BARRAGE "As far as defences against alt- craft are concerned

0. Lee Mr Mok Wal-hing. Mr Lo jor Stewart "the Wine-s', and many otherS

pruved satisfactory

considerable

Improvement "

are guns Major Stewart. "Their better their armaments are better and special protective devices have

went on Ma balloon has

in

use

IE

come into use and proved valuable

WICKHAM STEED

Continued from Page 1

so that there was now no chance Steed. "And yet, they would make of any major Interference with no bones u getting rid of Hitler

could save themselves for prepar

ing their world domination plan later"

the British and Russian plans to tomorrow if they thought they prevent the Germans fron making use of Iran as a means of getting to the oilfields of Baku in Con junction with their drive Southern Russia,

NOT SUFFICIENT

Referring Lo

the terms unde

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Mr. Steed here referred to comment made by a German get. eral upon the relations between the Nazi Party and the German The German Generals, Art-

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"The defensive side is alsu ing developed to the fullest PX. itent. Aircraft are going to be able to take harder knocks without being brought down."

Demanded Money From Elders

Stated to have demanded from the elders of the Tung Chung Village. Lantau Island money by

money

con-

3

with

Volunteer

the

Leave will only be granted for the actual period during which it is required, and except where the ap- pleant is required for night shifti work at his place of busincas he will be ordered to attend camp from after off bouts the i evening till the commencement of offer hours the following morn-

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In the case of camps on the Island of Hongkong transport will ut available at Volunteer Head- quarters. und the New Terr. tories the normal train service wh be used Every man granted leave! will be required to wear uniform when proceeding to and from his place of business.

The very active co-operation ct employers is requested so that each Officer and Volunteer may do his other employees doing extra work for that pertod.

which the present war could be Army. brought to a successful end for cording to Mr. Steed's Informant, a threatening letter, a 35-year-old full time in camp, even if it means eared for only one thing which farmer, TSANG KWAI allas Tsang the Allies, Mr. Steed said 'bat a

The Hul. allas Tsung Fut. was they called "Delight in arme. Lemporary deteal

Germany would not be sufficient as it would German Army differed from the victed on counts of uttering

demanding Nazi Party or questions of tame, letter only permit the Germans to star

education and behaviour, said Mr.

minaces and with demanding another war organisation and be

steed, but in the eyes of the money with menaces before the gin their aggression. Thal

German Army these things are of Chief Justice Sir Atholl Mac- what happened in 1918. When Von Hindenberg and General Lu-German Army is at one with the yesterday.

secondary importance and the Gregor, at the Criminal Sessions

dendorf had discarded Kaiser

Nazi Party in what they call the Wilhelm they went on to make

"Delight of Arms" plans through which they intend ed to become masters of the

world.

"They backed Herr

Wys

Hitler be. cause he promised to give them

what they wanted,"

said Mr.

Chinese Consulate

For H.K.?

In

This is precisely why this war masi be fought to the death.

PRUSSIAN SPIRIT

It is hoped that this co-operation will be more ac- tive than it has been in certain cases in the past. Telephones are installed in each camp for the use of Officers and Volunteer and it is preferable that a man be granted two or three hours leave from camp to attend to any special business rather than he be ex- empted for the whole day on the Tsang was sentenced to three off chance of his being required.

Accused was found Not Guilty on a third rount of robbery.

Murphy.

Assistant

years' hard labour.

Mr. J. P. Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, 88- slated by Det.-Sgt. J. Allan, and the following jury was empanell

Mr. Steed went on to declare that the question of solving the ed: Messrs Leung Kam-tong

Small-ball

German problem was not confined foreman), Liang Tak-chuen, Chan Competition

to the defeat ot Hitler and Yuk-cheng, Lim Cheng-joo, Chan

defeat

Nazim The true solution to the problem was the militarism of the Prussian spirit

and

the

Chat Ge-klang, Wong Cheuk-hing.

Ping-shu

it was here that the true

character of the Atlantic Charter JAPAN'S

could be applied.

Paragraph six

or this Eight-Point Declaration re-

It is learned that negotiations ferred to peace being established between H. M. Government's diplo-after the final destruction of Nazi matic representatives

China tyranny and the Charter went on and the Hongkong Government on to express the belief that it would

hand and the Chungkine

be necessary to disarm those na Government on the other, for the tins which threatened civilisation

one

establishment of a

Chinese Con- salate in the Colony, have been going for some time.

These negotiations are stated

to be in an advanced stage and

In this connexion it will be in-

teresting to note that the name

in order to achieve this end.

The destruction of this spirit of militarism and the disarinament

and

BLUFF

CALLED

Continued from Page 1 The magazine, TIME, today depicts worried Admiral No- mura as the man between "A TOUGH ARMY AT HOME AND TOUGH PRESIDENT IN WASHINGTON.”

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In the quarter-Anal of the Em- Portum Small-Ball Knock-out Shield competition at Caroline Hil yesterday TUNG SHAN gained a convincing victory over Sing Pao by six goals to three.

With

Lau Chung-sang in his best form, the winners led 4-0 be fore the interval, the scorers being Lau Chung-sang, Lai Shiu-wing (2) and Wong Man-awa!.

With the absence of their star, Kwok Ying-ki, Sing Pao's attack would not make any headway.

On resumption. Tsang Chung- The same paper says that it is wan moved in to the lead and this

of Germany are the only way in hard to find a responsible official at once bore fruit, the arrears pe which the other countries of the in Washington who entertains ing reduced through Yuen Yu- world Валя be led towards the ferlous thoughts that the Japan's lam (penalty). Lai then netted bis

mul-stage of pelite hopefulness.

CANNOT SCRAP

It is being pointed out afresh in

the

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Anal arrangements may be con- system of general security," said talks would ever get beyond the third goal and Sing Pao replied cluded when the British Ambas- Mr. Steed, "and German sador, Str Archibald Clark Kerr, tarism can only be destroyed if

through Tsung Chung-wan und Ho comes to Hongkong after he vialt nothing is left of it to work with,

Ying-fan.. to Malaya.

They will meet 8. China on Mon- or to work upon.

the Press that the United States day. ATLANTIC CHARTER

has military commitments to the Lau Chung-Kong notted Chinese, Dutch, Australians and winners sixth goa, "The Atlantic Charter will thus British which she cannot of Dr. Philip K. O. Tynu, Special be able to offer all nations the and that it is difficult for the Yung-gang,

scrap Commissioner of Foreign Affairs chance of dwelling in safely and yapanese to back down either in Kwan-sing. Wong Man-kwal, Laled by Home Education Ministries,

TUNG SHAN-Mak Ping, Hau for Kwangtung and Kwangsl. has to live their lives in treedom from Indo-China or China, while, be-Shtu-wing. Lau Chung-sang.

Man Bau-ki Fung been coupled with the first ap- fear and want. pointment of a Okinese Consul by off from the state of things and aggression, the United States. Call Trang Chung-wan, Leung Chin

We are still far cause of her commitments against SING Chinese reports,

PAO - Wong Kwok-yue, we shall have to work on and fight on if we are to achieve it enough to save the Japanese face Loung Ping-kwan, Yuen Tiu-lam.

not make any concession

big wah.

Ho Lok-kl, Ho Ying-fan, and we can best do this by giving if she did manage to back down. all possible help to Russla to withstand

TIME says that Japan can make

AH Q WIN vho German attack, no concession big enough to war- Defeating MALUK CLINIC by

'JUNK FOUNDERS

H.K. BADMINTON ASSCN. REPORT

AFFECTED

Cont'd, from Page 2 TOKYO, Sept. 19 (Reuter-Re-so did the number of spectators the season,

It may be BestMed finally 1,232 persons paid to see that this sport is

in the record sum of $836.00. This

becoming to- gulations affecting the moving the semi-final and final roundis creasingly popular too, and In plcture Industry have been decid- and which, as will be seen from this, in part, the Association may

the accounts presented, brought fairly take reflected credit.

The Association is also indebted meant that there was an average to the Fress, who gave willing and attendance of 250 people per night every assistance in the way of for the five final rights.

says a Japanese report.

Kowloon Burglary

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GRATIFYING ASPECT The most gratifying and

's

publicity to those who officiated as Umpires and Liesmen; and finally to the Olobe Who co- operated by permitting matches couraging aspect was perhaps to be played on their courts-and. Mrs. Bawal, of No: 311 Prince however the many new entries Inexpecially is it necessary to record

The trading junk. No. T5828H, continuing our success in the rant American oil going to Japan three goals to one, AR earned which was reported drifting off Battle of the Atlantis and prepar-again, and that the United States the right to play in the final on Edward Road, first floor, reported the Junior, Mixed Doubles and the assistance given in this res- Aberdeen during the typhoon on ing for the buttio that seems to has no morally valid answer to Tuesday Tuesday, Inter sark, it was dis-be Impending in North Africs.

to the Police that some per Ladies Doubles events, from which post by the Kowloon Cricket Generalissimo. Chiang Kai-shok's Iau Ching-to and Hu Kingsons gained entrance by an open 15 la evident that interest in the club. statvinent "ONE DROP OF OIL sing (2) scored for Ah Q while window into her house and money game is rapidly Incressing, Laxe- TO TOKYO MEANS GALLONS OF 'Loung Ping-kwan repiled for the to the total value of $1,200 in the wise, as a result of the Hrger at- ment can be regarded as moèt The Association's financial statė- BLOOD TO CHUNGKING."

-losers

early morning of Thursday, tendance of spectators, throughout satisfactory,

closed yesterday.

All on board were rescued but the cargo valued at $6,000 was lost,

"Only then will the true new order of the world be given, a

firm foundation,”